suarach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠuˑəɾˠəx/

Adjective

suarach (genitive singular masculine suaraigh, genitive singular feminine suaraí, plural suaracha, comparative suaraí)

  1. paltry, petty, insignificant; mean, contemptible
  2. airy, frivolous

Declension

Declension of suarach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative suarach shuarach suaracha;
shuaracha2
vocative shuaraigh suaracha
genitive suaraí suaracha suarach
dative suarach;
shuarach1 		shuarach;
shuaraigh (archaic) 		suaracha;
shuaracha2
Comparative níos suaraí
Superlative is suaraí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

  • páipéar suarach m (“rag”)
  • suarachán m (“petty, insignificant, person; mean, contemptible, person”)
  • suarachas m (“pettiness, paltriness, insignificance; meanness, sordidness”)
  • suaraigh (“demean”, transitive verb)
  • suaraíocht f (“meanness, insignificance”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of suarach
radical lenition eclipsis
suarach shuarach
after an, tsuarach 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪uəɾəx/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): [ˈs̪ʊɔ̝̈ɾəx][2]

Adjective

suarach (comparative suaraiche)

  1. abject, base
  2. contemptible, degenerate, despised, mean, vile, petty
    Tha mi ga cur suarach. ― I despise her.
  3. indifferent
  4. ignoble inferior, negligible, shoddy, trashy, tawdry
  5. silly, trivial, unimportant, valueless

Declension

Declension of suarach (type I adjective)
masculine feminine plural
nominative suarach suarach suarach
genitive suaraich suaraiche, suaraich suarach
dative suarach suaraich suarach
vocative suaraich suarach suarach

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súarrach, súairrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “suarach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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